Improvement in vegetable-cutters



a. w. PARKER. Vegetable-Cutters.

No. 142,580, Patented September9,l873.

Wz lnesses: Invenhr;

2 Sheets--Sheet1.

ivrrnn s'rn'rns GEORGE W. PARKER, on BELLAIRE, oHIo, ASSIGNOR on ONl -HALF 111s RIGHT TO 0. L. POORMAN, on SAME PLACE.

IMPRCVEMENT IN VEG ETABLECUTTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 142,580, dated September 9, 1873; application filed I May 1, 1873.

specification- Figure 1 being a top view of the improved vegetable-cutter; Fig. 2, a side view of the same; Fig. 3, a horizontal section in a plane ndicated by the line m m, Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a vertical section in a plane indicated by the line 3 g Fig. 1. v

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

First. In the construction of the parts which compose the body of the machine, a bottom plate or ring, A, is provided with sockets a a a to receive legs B B B, and with other sockets, b b b, to receive standards 0 O O, secured thereto by screws and nuts 0 0 0. Upon the upper ends of these standards a top plate or cap, D, of open form, is secured by screws and nuts dd (1. All these parts may be made of cast-iron, except the legs, which may more cheaply be made of wood. A cylindrical sheetmetal hopper or holder, E, to contain the vegetables to be sliced or cut, is clamped between the bed A and cap D. Thus all the parts composing the body of the machine are cheaply made and readily put together and taken apart. A bearing, F, for the central vertical cutter-shaft G, is sustained beneath the bedplate A by the screws and nuts 0 c c, which fasten" the standards 0 G G to the bed-plate.

The upper end of the driving-shaft has its wheel, on which they rest.

Second. In the construction and arrangement of the cutter-wheel K and hopper or cutting-box E, the cutter-wheel, bearing the knives i i i, revolves in the bottom part of the hopper, and forms the bottom thereof, on which the vegetables rest to be cut or sliced. A raised rim, k, on the outer upper edge of the cutter-wheel, prevents pieces and juices of the vegetables from escaping at or clogging the opening between the periphery of {)he cutter-wheel and. the hopper or cutting- Third. Around the cutter-wheel shaft Gr is a cylindrical or tubular case, L, fitting at the lower end close to the hub Zof the cutterwheel, so that the vegetables cannot interfere with the shaft 5 and from this central case or tube partitions M M M extend radially outward to the hopper E, to prevent the vegetables from being carried round by the cutter The slices of the vegetables fall through the threats or apertures in the wheel in front of the several knives t' i i. i

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The combination of the bottom or ring A, standards 0 (J O, radially-armed top frame D, sectional hopper E, and radially-armed bearing F, constructed and arranged substantially as and'for the purpose herein specified.

2. The shaft-'shieldin g tube I and radial partitions M M M, in combination with the hopper or cutting-box R and cutter-wheel K, substantially as and for the purpose herein specilied.

Specification signed by me this 21th day of December, 1872.

GEORGE W. PARKER.

Witnesses:

F. Bnnonr, W. H. BIKER. 

